Love poems

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Sonnet XX. The Lover’s Sonnet. Midnight.

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

I WAITED through the night, while summer blew
The breath of roses through my darkened room.
The whispering breeze just stirred the leafy gloom
Beyond the window. On the lawn the dew

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Song (Love)

© Aphra Behn

When full brute Appetite is fed,
And choakd the Glutton lies and dead;
Thou new Spirits dost dispense,
And fine'st the gross Delights of Sense.

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At Night

© Sara Teasdale

We are apart; the city grows quiet between us,
She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes,
The tangle of traffic is ended, the cars are empty,
Five streets divide us, and on them the moonlight lies.

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The Borough. Letter XIII: The Alms-House And Trustees

© George Crabbe

feel.
  Three seats were vacant while Sir Denys reign'd,
And three such favourites their admission gain'd;
These let us view, still more to understand
The moral feelings of Sir Denys Brand.

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An Hymne Of Heavenly Beautie

© Edmund Spenser

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought,
Through contemplation of those goodly sights,
And glorious images in heaven wrought,
Whose wondrous beauty, breathing sweet delights

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Ballad Of Jesus Of Nazareth

© Edgar Lee Masters

It matters not what place he drew
At first life's mortal breath,
Some say it was in Bethlehem,
And some in Nazareth.
But shame and sorrow were his lot
And shameful was his death.

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Champlain

© William Henry Drummond

  If you want to fin' w'at is lef' behin'
  Of de story I try very hard tell you,
  Don't bodder me now or raise de row,
  But study de book de sam' I do.

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The Shapes of Death

© Stephen Spender

Shapes of death haunt life,
Neurosis eclipsing each in special shadow:
Unrequited love not solving
One’s need to become another’s body

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To Mrs. Armine Cartwright, At Bath.

© Mary Barber

Lovely Armina, o'er her Books reclin'd,
Impairs her Body, to improve her Mind:
Of Wisdom fond, as others are of Wealth,
In that Pursuit will sacrifice her Health:

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The Feud: A Border Ballad

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

They sat by their wine in the tavern that night,
But not in good fellowship true:
The Rhenish was strong and the Burgundy bright,
And hotter the argument grew.

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On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman

© William Lisle Bowles

Oh, Mary, when distress and anguish came,

  And slow disease preyed on thy wasted frame;

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A Rondel of Merciless Beauty - The Original

© Geoffrey Chaucer

I. 1.
Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly
I may the beaute of them not sustene,
So wendeth it thorowout my herte kene.

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To The Dandelion

© James Russell Lowell

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,

Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,

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Lines For Music (III)

© Frances Anne Kemble

Good night! from music's softest spell

  Go to thy dreams: and in thy slumbers,

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Shadow-of-a-Leaf

© Alfred Noyes

Bird, squirrel, bee, and the thing that was like no other
  Played in the woods that day,
Talked in the heart of the woods, as brother to brother,
  And prayed as children pray, –
Make me a garland, Lady, a garland, Mother,
  For this wild rood of may.

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Just Half Of That, Please

© Edgar Albert Guest

Grandmother says when I pass her the cake:

"Just half of that, please."

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Italy : 50. Genoa

© Samuel Rogers

This house was Andrea Doria's.  Here he lived;
And here at eve relaxing, when ashore,
Held many a pleasant, many a grave discourse
With them that sought him, walking to and fro

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A Bonus

© Elizabeth Smart

That day i finished
A small piece
For an obscure magazine
I popped it in the box

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The Red-Tressed Maiden

© Roderic Quinn

RED she is in a robe of sable,
Rosy with pictures and tales to tell:
She is a fairy, and yet no fable,
Weaving the dreams that we love so well.

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Satyr III. Virtue

© Thomas Parnell

Is virtue something reall here below
Or but an Idle name & empty show
While on this head I take my thoughts to task
Methinks young Freedom answers wt I ask
In his own moralls thus the Spark goes on
Or thus if he were here he might have don